A bit of legacy-buffing for McCain, some deeply pernicious pro-war talking points, and a few chuckles between two old friends.
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Elizabeth Warren: Why I’m Co-Sponsoring Bernie’s Medicare for All Bill
Health care is a basic human right – and it’s time to fight for it. Please join me in signing on as a citizen co-sponsor of Medicare for All.
How Did Workers Win the Right to Form a Union and Go on Strike?
When unions are busted and removed from the bargaining table, both the union worker and the nonunion employee suffer.
Donald Trump Hides Behind the Storm, Hurricane Harvey
As Hurricane Harvey raged on, President Donald Trump tried to use the disaster as cover. It might have worked. And that is sad.
How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump
A new report shows how conservatives are winning a war that the rest of us don’t even know we’re fighting.
Arpaio Pardon May Be Opening Act of a Constitutional Crisis
Trump’s move Friday night shows the same disregard of the rule of law with which he’s trying to quash the Russia probe.
Dear Fellow Lefties: Know Who the Real Enemy Is
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s killing us.
Trump’s going into war overdrive to get his poll numbers up
Bush achieved the highest poll numbers of any president in history save for his son’s post 9-11 record, his popularity. Trump’s will too.
The ACA Had Just Begun to Fix Rural America’s Health Care Inequality
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 began to change this as more rural Americans gained insurance coverage and rural hospitals strived.
Progressives Explain Why Centrist Tech Billionaires Won’t Save the Democrats
The newly launched Win the Future initiative has been panned as just another “centrist push” by self-interested billionaires.
Activist News
While Trump Dominates News, Wall Street Quietly Pillages The World (VIDEO)
Wall Street is giddy whenever Trump does something stupid — which is a daily occurrence — because it distracts the rest of us from their pillage.
Our Entire Economy Is Based On A Massive LIE That Is Killing People (VIDEO)
Lee Camp used his Redacted Tonight show to point out an inconsistency in free market capitalism as defined vs. the reality of its implementation.
Lee Camp: Billionaire CEO Accidentally Reveals Truth About Trump’s Cabinet (VIDEO)
On Fox Business Channel the other day a billionaire CEO slipped up and revealed the truth about Trump’s cabinet. Here’s my take on what was revealed.
Journalists Illegally Arrested At North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protests (VIDEO)
Journalists – as well as actress Shailene Woodley – have been arrested in North Dakota, and some are facing 45 years in prison.
A concern for us all – The End of Food As We Know It without bees? (VIDEO)
One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators – especially bees. So why are we so flippant about bee die-off?
Mathematical PROOF Big Bankers Knew 2008 Collapse Was Coming! (VIDEO)
Even though the big bankers have always claimed they had no idea the 2008 financial crisis was on the horizon, new proof suggests otherwise!
The truth behind the debates that very few know about (VIDEO)
The Truth Behind the Rigged Debates: Ever feel like you’re watching two heads of the same beast go at it in a rigged charade? Well, that’s because you are.
DNC Lawyers Basically Admit Primary Election Was Rigged (VIDEO)
Lee Camp covers the latest news about the lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He covers the crucial issues missing from the debate.
How to Spot a White Supremacist – Alt-Right (VIDEO)
Neo-fascists and White Supremacists want to be called Alt-Right. There is a humongous problem with that characterization that one must heed.
Columnists
Stop Using ‘Woman in chador walks by anti-US mural’ for every Iran article
The general mindlessness in choosing a stock photo is what makes these images to supposedly capture the articles on Iran so pernicious.
Corporate Media Have Few Apologies for Getting IRS Scandal Backwards
It turns out the corporate media got the IRS Scandal about Conservative nonprofits being targeted. It turns out Liberal nonprofits took the brunt.
American Made: A Largely True Story With Some Not-So-Fun Lies
The best-documented part of Seal’s covert life was his involvement with the DEA and Oliver North’s National Security Council in a sting operation.
We Need Thoughtful Coverage of Gun Violence, Not Slow Pans Over Arsenals
Exploring gun issues thoughtfully is not as easy as replaying footage of people screaming and running. But it’s more likely to move us forward.
Daniel Ellsberg Warns of Nuclear Dangers in the Era of Trump
I was particularly pleased to read Ellsberg’s upcoming The Doomsday Machine, already hailed in blurbs by everyone from Edward Snowden to Arundhati Roy.
Chris Hedges: Faces of Pain, Faces of Hope
The bottomless narcissism and hunger of consumer culture cause our darkest and most depraved pathologies.
Memo to Tillerson about the Moron
Robert Reich is suggesting a remedy for the Donald Trump problem which is becoming an existential problem for the United States of America.
Two Charts on the Gun Crisis: One Hopeful, One Hopeless
Charts debunk the standard right-wing talking point that Chicago proves that gun control doesn’t work but it’s an uphill battle.
Text messages reveal ‘pro-life’ GOP Congressman urged mistress to have abortion
Rep. Tim Murphy (PA-18), one the most anti-choice Republicans of them all, had an extramarital affair and apparently urged his mistress to get an abortion.
If You Tell Me You Are Supporting Trump, I Already Know Seven Things About You
It is important that the Trump support begin some introspection that allows them to ask why Donald Trump is the type of person they support.
Guest Bloggers
A message from one of many Millennials to the Democratic Party
It is time to put the 2016 election in the past and unite the Democratic Party for the fight ahead. This thoughtful Millennial is ready as are many others.
At Sea with Capt. ‘Wrong Way’ Trump
A rudderless ship of state creates chaos and erratically steers us into a feckless foreign policy. We got this obvious result for electing a toddler.
AirBnB Host Refuses To Rent To Asian Woman: “It’s Why We Have Trump.” (VIDEO)
Another Trump supporter, an Airbnb Host, feeling perfectly comfortable being a nasty racist and using the election of Donald Trump as an excuse for it.
Indivisible: A Social Action Startup for Democracy
Imagine these Indivisible groups as cells in a vast progressive network that includes more than 6000 Indivisible chapters plus other orgs.
The Electoral College: a threat to our Republic. It must go, sooner than later (VIDEO)
History will likely show that Clinton won the popular vote by almost two million more votes than Trump votes while losing the election.
Explain why Democrats, after 8 years, should treat your party any differently than you treated ours
My hope is to help Hillary supporters process their feelings and also inform Trump supporters about what liberals are going through.
Bashing, intimidating huge swathes of the electorate is a bizarre get-out-the-vote strategy
Exercise your right to vote your values if only to spite those who would almost certainly take that right from you.
Just Say NO to Elizabeth Fagen by Patty Pinkley
Patty Pinkley did some digging on Humble ISD new Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen and what she continues to find maker Fagen a problem for the district.
Will Sanders Campaign Adequately Fund the Grassroots to Win Big in the West and Ensure Fair Elections?
Sanders supporters believe that Bernie’s key to winning Western States with more than 60% of the vote is to invest funds in grassroots efforts.
The Invisibility of U.S. Oligarchs: The Case of Penny Pritzker
If anyone doubts the power of the Oligarchy over the press, this story points out why Americans can never trust the media gatekeepers to inform.
Videocasts & Podcasts
Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg on KPFT – Guest Hosts Mike Honig and Egberto Willies
Mike Honig and Egberto Willies guest hosted on Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg. We discussed voter ID, Liberalism, Conservatism, and much more.
The Julianna Forlano Show – Guests Egberto Willies & Adam Weismann
On tonight’s episode on the Julianna Forlano Show we discuss the hope and the pain. They discuss the 2014 midterm elections and the TPP.
Politics Done Right on KPFT – America can afford Medicare for all
This week’s show July 7th, 2014 America can afford Medicare for all Last week while performing my engineering duties on KPFT’s Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig, a rather disturbing call came from a caller. The caller was not a bad person. The caller was not ill willed. The caller simply bought into the tenet that […]